Baden-Württemberg: Wood increasingly popular stolen goods in the energy crisis

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Wood from Baden-Württemberg’s forests is becoming more and more a coveted stolen good in the energy crisis. “From January to September of this year, the number of cases is at a five-year high, and there is also an increase in damage compared to previous years,” said David Fritsch, spokesman for the State Criminal Police Office, on the number of wood thefts. In the previous year, the authority counted 479 cases with damage of almost 294,500 euros. In 2018 there were 547 cases with damage of around 331,300 euros. “Wood is the new toilet paper,” Tobias Knupfer, Vice President of the Association of German Foresters, is convinced.